Wednesday

Good morning,

Quote of the day:

When asked what surprised him the most about humanity he answered “Man...because he sacrifices his health for money. Then he sacrifices his money to regain his health. Then he is so anxious about his future that he does not enjoy the present: The end result is that he lives in neither the present nor the future; he lives like he is never going to die then he dies never knowing he has really lived.”

                                     Dalai Lama

I saw a story about the Winder family in Selmer, Tennessee. The man of the house was a Church of Christ minister. His wife looked just like you might suspect coming from a tiny town in south Central Tennessee and an ever smaller church. The man and the wife had issue of three daughters. He was a tall, good-looking athletic type, the wife was a very quiet mousy type. One night she got out of bed, retrieved a pump shotgun and fired one round into the back of her husband who was asleep. The blast did not kill the man right away and he wallowed around on the floor until he bled out. The wife gathered up her girls into the family van and disappeared. The next afternoon the church was holding a bible study and neither the preacher nor his wife showed up. After the service a couple of the elders went over to the Reverend's house. The doors were locked but a key was found in a tackle box in the garage. They got into the house and found the minister dead as fried chicken and the wife and kids were gone. The local sheriff put out a nationwide BOLO (be on the lookout) for the wife, kids and the van. Everybody thought it had been a kidnapping, but about 600 miles away near Orange Beach, Alabama (been there), a van matching the BOLO made an illegal U turn on Ocean Boulevard and was stopped. It was indeed the minister's wife and kids. She went on trial for murder. With her and the older daughter's testimony it appeared that the good minister was a wife beater in addition to having a few kinks. The wife still had a few bruises on her arms and chest and produced a couple of wigs and platform shoes that had been bought by her husband for her to wear. When asked if her husband had required her to do sex acts she was not comfortable with...she nodded her head....when asked what she just said “on top”....it took me a while to grasp that as being “kinky” but being a wife-beater is not allowed under any circumstance, wigs and shoes not withstanding. The end result was she was convicted of manslaughter and given 210 days minus time served. There was no doubt that her testimony was from the heart. Her parents were given custody of the kids while she was in the joint. Six months after she was released she had her kids with her once again. We never know what goes on behind closed doors...do we?

This Date in History April 29

1945   On this date the 45th division of the United States 7^th Army (US General Alexander ‘Sandy’ Patch commanding) on its march across Europe to free the different nations from the hell of the Nazis, come upon an enclosed camp in Poland. General Patch was as an efficient commander as General George Patton, the commander of the 3^rd Army, but was not as an egomaniac. The soldiers could detect the plant from afar because of the smothering stench that emanated downwind. It was Auschwitz, y'all. It was facility that had no other purpose that to kill Jews and Gypsies as fast and efficiently as possible. It is estimated that 3 million Jews that were literally exterminated as vermin by these Nazi beasts. When the Nazi camp commander and his staff determined that the Americans were within a day or two of liberating the camp, they went on a murder rampage hoping to eliminate all the prisoners that they could before running out of ammo and then scorched as many of the buildings with flamethrowers as they could and then they left hoping to blend in with the general population. The Americans were stunned at what they saw. There were heap and piles of emaciated copses including a nearby train with cattle cars full to capacity with the same. The Americans had no choice but to bury the corpses along with tons of quick lime to eliminate the chance of a cholera epidemic. It was the Russians that came upon the camp at Buchenwald, the worst of them all. Buchenwald had ovens, y'all, ovens. I will leave it to you to figure out what the ovens were for but when the Russians arrived the ovens were out of coal and had stopped working. The Russians had nothing on their minds but revenge for the Germans killing 26 million of their brethren, now upon seeing this every Russian soldier was a razor. They left there and headed to Germany and were not to be denied their revenge. It turned out to be a 570 mile long bloodbath. It was nothing short of a massacre of the Germans by the Russians be it, man, woman, children, dogs, cats, cattle or any other air breather...all were slaughtered. In the meantime the allies had sealed off the western side of Germany and would not accept a surrender. They just saw to it that the Russians got their belly full of German blood. The Russians did not cut any slack y'all, they indeed got a belly full.

Born today:

1897 English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. When speaking to a female cellist in his orchestra he said “Madam, you have between your legs an instrument that is capable of giving pleasure to thousands, all you have to do is scratch it.” No Comment.

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